Play with Last.FM
Play with Last.FM
Just build Play from revision 254. Works ok but how do I get my Last.Fm account working with it ?
Cheers !
Cheers !
You need to grab the official Last.FM client. If the client is running on your machine, Play will notify it.
Do you have the official client installed and running? If so, Play will send the tracks you play to the client which actually does the scrobbling.mGee wrote:Play last.fm support is only halfway there. It doesn't actually scrobble the track... and album information isn't sent to the client.
If you do have the client installed, what behavior are you seeing?
I do have the latest official client installed.
What happens is the following:
I play, for example, Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (Live) from the album 'Donny Hathaway Live'
The track displays on the last.fm Now Playing screen. But displays another album title.
That in itself is one thing, the biggest problem is the lack of scrobbling. Normally when I play tracks in iTunes and it communicates with last.fm, the last.fm client tracks the playback – counting down until it 's time to scrobble the track, which is the halfway point in the track, I believe. Then when it scrobbles, the display is updated with "Track Scrobbled".
This behavior doesn't occur with track playback in Play. The title of the track is displayed in the status, but the client doesn't track the playback of the track and there is no countdown displayed and the client never scrobbles the track.
I'm running OSX 10.4.9 on a 1GHz PowerPC G4 Powerbook.
What happens is the following:
I play, for example, Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (Live) from the album 'Donny Hathaway Live'
The track displays on the last.fm Now Playing screen. But displays another album title.
That in itself is one thing, the biggest problem is the lack of scrobbling. Normally when I play tracks in iTunes and it communicates with last.fm, the last.fm client tracks the playback – counting down until it 's time to scrobble the track, which is the halfway point in the track, I believe. Then when it scrobbles, the display is updated with "Track Scrobbled".
This behavior doesn't occur with track playback in Play. The title of the track is displayed in the status, but the client doesn't track the playback of the track and there is no countdown displayed and the client never scrobbles the track.
I'm running OSX 10.4.9 on a 1GHz PowerPC G4 Powerbook.
This is very strange. Does this occur with all files, or only some? If only some, is it confined to one format?
I just tested again on my machine, and it worked with version 1.1.3 of the Last.FM client.
Here is a test you can try to see what Play is sending to the client. Open a Terminal window and type 'nc -l -p 33367'. Then switch over to Play and double-click a track in the queue to start it playing. You should see some output in terminal like 'START c=pla&a=CAKE&t=Short Skirt/Long Jacket&b=Comfort Eagle&m=&l=204&p=/Users/me/Music/CAKE/Comfort Eagle/04 Short Skirt_Long Jacket.ogg'.
What output do you see?
I just tested again on my machine, and it worked with version 1.1.3 of the Last.FM client.
Here is a test you can try to see what Play is sending to the client. Open a Terminal window and type 'nc -l -p 33367'. Then switch over to Play and double-click a track in the queue to start it playing. You should see some output in terminal like 'START c=pla&a=CAKE&t=Short Skirt/Long Jacket&b=Comfort Eagle&m=&l=204&p=/Users/me/Music/CAKE/Comfort Eagle/04 Short Skirt_Long Jacket.ogg'.
What output do you see?